Who is Christopher Dorner ? was a former LAPD police officer and ex-United States Navy reservist. He is the primary suspect in the 2013 Southern California shootings, a series of shooting attacks on police officers from February 3 to 12 that left four people dead, including two police officers, and four police officers wounded. He was the subject of one of the largest manhunts in LAPD history, one spanning four U.S. states and Mexico. At the time of the shootings, Dorner had been living in La Palma with his mother. Dorner left no children and court records show that his wife had filed for divorce in 2007
Medical examiners have positively identified the body of the renegade
former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the man
authorities say killed four people and wounded three others in a
vendetta against his old comrades. The scorched body found inside the burned-out cabin near Big Bear Lake
where law enforcement officers were caught in a deadly shootout this
week has been positively identified as that of Christopher J. Dorner,
the authorities announced on Thursday
Mr. Dorner, 33, a former Los Angeles police officer who the authorities believe killed four people this month, had been the subject of a regionwide manhunt since last week. His body was identified through a dental examination, according to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department. No cause of death was given.
The sheriff had already expressed confidence that Mr. Dorner had been killed, after a bloody confrontation on Tuesday that left one San Bernardino sheriff’s deputy dead and another seriously wounded.
“We believe the investigation is over,” John McMahon, the San Bernardino County sheriff, said at a news conference on Wednesday, before the body had been identified.
Mr. Dorner had pledged revenge against law enforcement officers in a manifesto he posted online, which named members of the Los Angeles Police Department as targets. His killing spree began on Feb. 3, when he killed the daughter of a former Los Angeles police captain and her fiancé. He then killed a Riverside police officer on Feb. 7 and wounded another officer.
The manhunt for him intensified that day, when his car was discovered burned in Big Bear Lake, a mountain resort area about 100 miles east of Los Angeles.
But Mr. Dorner did not re-emerge until Tuesday, having apparently hidden in an unoccupied cabin for several days. He stole a vehicle, the authorities said, and eventually crashed it, carjacked another one and then fled into the woods, where he was surrounded in the cabin.
The sheriff had already expressed confidence that Mr. Dorner had been killed, after a bloody confrontation on Tuesday that left one San Bernardino sheriff’s deputy dead and another seriously wounded.
“We believe the investigation is over,” John McMahon, the San Bernardino County sheriff, said at a news conference on Wednesday, before the body had been identified.
Mr. Dorner had pledged revenge against law enforcement officers in a manifesto he posted online, which named members of the Los Angeles Police Department as targets. His killing spree began on Feb. 3, when he killed the daughter of a former Los Angeles police captain and her fiancé. He then killed a Riverside police officer on Feb. 7 and wounded another officer.
The manhunt for him intensified that day, when his car was discovered burned in Big Bear Lake, a mountain resort area about 100 miles east of Los Angeles.
But Mr. Dorner did not re-emerge until Tuesday, having apparently hidden in an unoccupied cabin for several days. He stole a vehicle, the authorities said, and eventually crashed it, carjacked another one and then fled into the woods, where he was surrounded in the cabin.
from : nytimes.com
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